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DRESS SHIELD.

No. 375,239. Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARYE. WHEELER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO B. M. AND T. S. BASSETT, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

DRESS-SHIELD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 375,239, dated December 20,1887.

Application filed July 12, 1886. Serial No. 207,729. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARY E. WHEELER, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in Dress-Shields; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and theletters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in t Figure 1, a face view of the shield; Fig. 2, an inside view of one flap, showing the lining applied to form the pockets; Fig. 3, a vertical section showing the interposed perfumed or deodorizing material upon the inside of the flap; Fig. 4:, a vertical section showing the pockets formed upon the outside of the flap;

Fig. 5, a modification in the construction of the pocket.

This invention relates to an improvement in the article worn by ladies in the armhole to protect the dress, and commonly called dressshield. The article is usually made of crescent shape, double, one flap to extend inside the waist of 'the dress and the other into the sleeve.

The object of the invention is to provide the shield with a perfuming deodorizing subodorizing material, and as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents one of the flaps of the shield, and B the other flap, the said flaps made from the usual rubber fabric. Upon the inner side of one or both flaps a lining, C, is applied, preferably cut in shape corresponding to the crescent shape of the flap, and secured thereto by stitches or otherwise around its edge, and then lines of stitches run through the flap and the lining to form several pockets, a, more or less in number, between the flap and the lining. Into these pockets perfuming and deodorizing material is introduced. This may be in the form of any of the known perfuming or deodorizing powders. This material is best placed before the pockets are formed, and so that the stitching may serve to secure the material at the same time that the pockets are formed.

The perfumed and deodorizing material may be arranged in a sack corresponding to each pocket, or in a sack corresponding in shape to the crescent shape of the lining, and so as to lie between the lining and the flap, as seen in Fig. 3. The lining may be of very light thin material, and the sack itself may also be very thin, and may be a single thickness of fabric which hasbeen filled with the perfumed deodorizing substance; hence there is so little added to the shield in applying this invention that it does not incommode the wearer and makes but a trifling addition to the cost of manufacture. v

I have represented the pocket as made by the application of a thickness of material to the inside of the flap; but it will be understood that while preferably so applied it may with equal facility be applied to the outside of the flap, as seen in Fig. 4.

Instead of making the flap itself as one side of the pocket, the lining may be of double thickness, so as to form the pocket independent of the flap, as seen in Fig. 5.

I claim 1. A dress-shield having its body of rubber fabric and-containing a pocket formed in one of the flaps, combined with a perfumed deodorizing substance introduced in said pockets.

2. A dress shield having its body of rubber fabric and a lining, C, secured to one of the flaps, combined with an interposed perfumed and deodorizing substance, with linesof stitches run through the said flap and the lining to form pockets to secure said perfumed deodorizing material, substantially as described.

MARY E. WHEELER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. FALLS, EDITH MAI. 

